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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Need help for distribution change
From:       Larry Howe <larry.howe () comjet ! com>
Date:       2005-02-18 17:56:51
Message-ID: 200502181256.51968.larry.howe () comjet ! com
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On Friday February 18 2005 12:38, Chris Cox wrote:
> Jason Flatt wrote:
> >On Thursday 17 February 2005 04:16 pm, Larry Baker wrote:
> >>I am changing from the SUSE 9.2 professional to the Mandrake 10.1
> >>distribution.  Since KMail does not support an export function, can
> >> anyone suggest a way to save my e-mail messages so that after a clean
> >> install, the messages can then be accessed in the new distribution?
> >
> >You could just copy your ~/Mail folder to some offline storage place
> > (another hard drive, network share, CD, etc.), do the re-installation
> > thing and then copy it back in place (or possibly import them if the
> > folders are mbox format).  I did something similar mayself recently.
>
> If you do it that way make sure you chown -R newuser:users Mail/
> directory path. Where newuser is the name of your user account.

As an aside, I normally set up a separate data partition and put /home there. 
Then you can make changes to the OS independent of your data, and you can 
easily back up your data without having to worry about things like temp 
files. It also works very well, in a network environment, to NFS mount /home 
to all computers. Then no matter where you log in, you have the same home. If 
we lived in Windows world we would make up some jargon for this like "roaming 
profiles".

Larry
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